biografia di Duke WELLINGTON (1896-1987)

Birth place: Kansas

Addresses: Ranchos de Taos, NM

Profession: Painter

Studied: Kansas State College; Los Angeles AC; ASL; also with Eliot O'Hara, Edgar A. Whitney, Hayward Veal, Doel Reed, Alice Harold Murphy, Reed Schmickle & Joseph Fleck.

Exhibited: Kansas City (MO) AA, Kansas City Mus., 1957; Kansas Painters Show, Kansas State College, Pittsburgh, 1958; Ozark Artist Guild, Joplin, MO, 1958 (award for "Clown Lou Jacobs"); Spiva AC, Joplin, 1959 (award for "The Hens"); Wichita Art Mus., 1968; Reynolds Gallery, Taos, NM, 1970s. Awards: award for "Finitude," Kansas Painters Show, 1959.

Member: Spiva AC; Scene & Pictorial Painters Int. (life mem.); Wichita Art Mus.

Work: Graphica, Sage Brush Inn, Taos, NM; in many private collections, including Maurice Chevalier, Paris, Irving Berlin, NY & Gustav S. Eyssell, NY. Commissions: Christ in Kansas mural & 30 religious paintings, Diocese of Wichita, KS, 1958.

Comments: Preferred medium: oils. Positions: art director, Texas Theatre, San Antonio, 1924-26; art director, Paramount Theatres, 1927-36; art director, Nat. Screen Serv., Los Angeles, 1946-56; art demonstrator, NBC/KOAM Educ .TV, Pittsburgh, 1966-67. Publications: author, Theatre Poster Service," Publix Theatres Publ., 1929-36; author, Theory and Practice of Poster Art, Signs of Times Publ. Co., 1934.

Sources: WW73; Robert Kelly, "San Antonio Boy Promoted," San Antonio Evening News, May 25, 1928; George Britt, "Lure Movie Fans," New York World Telegram, October 7, 1932; R.E. Breniver, "Duke, Artist Deluxe," Signs of the Times (Cincinnati, Ohio, February, 1932)."